Part-Qualified Accountant

Wagestream; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking fintech company dedicated to enhancing financial wellbeing for frontline workers. As a PQ Accountant, you'll play a vital role in a dynamic finance team, contributing to month-end processes, financial reporting, and improving business operations. This role offers the chance to work in a fast-paced environment with diverse responsibilities, all while supporting a mission-driven organization. Experience the excitement of a scale-up atmosphere where your contributions directly impact the financial health of employees across various sectors. If you're passionate about finance and eager to grow your career in a supportive team, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 Days Annual Leave

Private Healthcare

Paid Maternity Leave

Sabbatical Scheme

Access to Wagestream

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Qualifications

• 1-2 years experience in a fast-growth startup or similar business.
• Part qualified in AAT, CIMA, or ACCA.

Responsibilities

• Assist with month-end close, bank reconciliations, and management accounts.
• Prepare VAT returns and liaise with external advisors.

Skills

Team Collaboration

Accounting Principles

Financial Reporting

Problem Solving

Education

AAT Level 3

CIMA Level 2

ACCA Part Qualified

Tools

Netsuite

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Company:

Wagestream is on a mission to bring better financial wellbeing to frontline workers.

We partner with some of the world’s most famous employers, like Pizza Express, Hilton and the UK’s National Health Service, to give their teams access to fairer financial services - all built around flexible pay. Over a million people can now choose how often they’re paid, track their shifts and earnings, start saving, use budgeting tools, get free financial coaching, and access fairer financial products. All in one financial wellbeing super-app.

Wagestream is unique: VC-backed and growing at scale-up pace, but with a social conscience. The UK’s leading financial charities and impact funds were our founding investors, and we operate on a social charter - which means every product we build has to improve financial health and reduce the $5.6bn ‘premium’ lower-income earners pay for financial services each year.

You’d be joining a team of over 200 passionate, ambitious people, growing in Europe, Australia and the USA, building a category-leading fintech product and all united by that same mission.

The Opportunity:

Our Finance team is small but mighty, the glue that holds us together and the oil that keeps us all moving. We see Finance as an integral part of the Wagestream machine, and we’re looking for someone who wants to contribute to our high-performing team. We are a unique and diverse team, and we are looking for someone who loves autonomy and responsibility, whilst also being happy to contribute to the wider culture of the team and business.

This is a rather typical PQ Accountant role, but with the unique twist of getting to work within a fast-paced and hyper growth scale-up Tech environment in the Financial Wellbeing Sector. No two days within the month will be the same, but expect to see those regular accounting activities that you’ll know and love, whilst undertaking specific & specialist projects throughout the year.

The Team:

You’ll report to the Head of Finance/Senior Management Accountant, and make up the 5th member of the Finance Team. On a typical day you’ll work with the Finance team, as well as the Heads of Departments and Directors, as well as People and Operations teams. You’ll be based out of our Leeds Office, which is made up of our Customer Support Team, SME Sales Team as well as some Operational Team Members. The rest of the Finance team are based in London or semi-remotely.

Requirements

What will you be doing?:

It’s difficult to put into one list all the different responsibilities our finance team have, but here is a snapshot of what you can expect to contribute as our PQ Accountant:

• Assisting the Senior Management Accountant with the whole month end close process including multi-territory bank reconciliations, posting of accrual, prepayment and revenue journals;
• Preparation of the monthly management accounts packs for use by management and third parties (using Netsuite).
• Manage weekly banking across three different territories alongside the AP and AR specialist
• Prepare VAT returns on a quarterly basis.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts.
• Work with external advisors on year-end audits, financial statements, tax filings and other projects
• Liaise with third parties including our investors, banks and partners to communicate monthly information
• Help improve processes for the whole business
• Assisting the Senior Management Accountant, FP&A Manager and Head of Finance with other Ad-Hoc activities
• Studying for your further qualifications - yes - we want you to progress your career!

What experience might you have?

• 1 to 2 years working in a Fast Growth start-up or similar business
• Experience using Netsuite
• Part qualified - AAT Level 3 /CIMA level 2/ACCA part qualified or similar degree level
• Strong team player who is willing to roll up their sleeves and get involved in different parts of the business
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office

Can-be-learnts:

• Technology Lingo - you’ll learn about Financial Wellbeing, Flexible Pay and SaaS
• Reporting requirements in foreign territories
• How an external audit process works

Within 1 month you’ll have:

• Learnt about the business, how we operate, who you will work closely with, met your peers in both Leeds and London
• Completed your initial onboarding sessions across the business, be fully set up on all our tech and finance systems, your home working environment will be how you like it, and you’ll have found the best spot in the office (and met the Office dog!)
• Helped produce the monthly reporting for the Group which is provided to the founders and CFO

Within 3 months you’ll have:

• Assisted our MA with month end close process, learnt about each territories reconciliations process, and feel comfortable on Netsuite.
• Worked on preparing our Quarterly VAT returns, ready to do it autonomously next quarter.
• Assisted with the year end audit of the statutory financial statements
• Become a key point of contact for our partners, banks and the wider Wagestream team

Within 6 months you’ll have:

• Be fully autonomous in your role, and confident you know where to go if you need further support
• Started contributing to the wider practices of the company and made your mark within the Finance team
• Taken ownership of reporting and processes for multiple territories and worked with our advisors to achieve deadlines

Benefits

Working Policy:

We operate a hybrid policy with an expectation of 3 days a week in the London Office (your place of work), with the remaining days at your home office.

Salary

£30,000 > £40,000 depending on experience. We also offer equity in the business for team members, so you own a piece of what we are building.

What will we do for you?

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad-hoc childcare/family/caring needs
  
• 10 days Annual Leave Buy-Back scheme
• 24 weeks' paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave for employees with over 12 months service
• Special Leave for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and other fertility treatments
• Sabbatical scheme
• Paid leave to volunteer
• Private Healthcare via AXA including comprehensive mental-, physical- and dental healthcare
• Salary sacrifice to pension, as well as bonus exchange to Pension: reap even more rewards of any bonus by paying into your pension & save on Tax and NI + added compound growth
• Season Ticket Loan
• The best benefit of all, access to Wagestream!
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes via ThanksBen: THE Benefits marketplace. Choose the benefits you want, when you want. Pay less tax, receive more value

Including:

• Workplace nurseries
• Cycle to Work
• Home and Tech Scheme
• Healthcare cash plans, etc
• Discounts platform

At Wagestream we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Wagestream is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.